Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word decision that should enable management in the future to speak in a voice raised at least one decibel above a whisper. Dean Smith was called to arbitrate an unauthorized C.I.O. walkout staged by Wright Aeronautical Corp. workers. Their grievance: they disliked a foundry assistant supervisor, Albert Knowles, and demanded that he be fired...
...night last week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
Sued for Divorce. Fletcher Martin, 39, Thomas Hart Benton's successor as chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute's painting department; by Maxine June Ferris Martin, 28, onetime Iowa hospital supervisor; after two years of marriage (his third, her first), ten months of separation; in Kansas City...
McGuffey's Readers marked a milestone in U.S. education. What textbooks will become the McGuffeys of tomorrow? A notable contender for the role of McGuffey's successor is a Stanford professor of education, Paul Robert Hanna, supervisor and part author of a thumpingly successful series of elementary school textbooks on social questions. Last week teachers were leafing through two new additions to the series...
...Sizable Following. Putnam does not write what he reports; that is ably done by NBC news writers. Putnam reads it after "processing" it for two hours. "Processing" consists of marking the copy to suggest intonations and going over it with Roy Porteous, night supervisor of NBC announcers. "I prefer," says George Putnam, "to say that Putnam works hours in the preparation of his news." He also says, of other radio commentators: "It doesn't matter that they've been all over the world. When these people are back a couple of months they can't tell...